Another April Product from Google - TISP

Google came up with another new, product/service this April 1st. Tisp, free Home Wi-Fi  (i think its Toilet ISP) is ready now..

Wi-Fi Hotspots in Chennai Airport

Last week I went to Madras(Chennai) Airport to pick my brother. As I haven't accessed any Wi-Fi connection in Madras Airport, I took my new Laptop, to check out the Wi-Fi Hotspots.  BSNL, KingFisher & TATA-Indicom are the three networks available inside the Airport. Though I expected Sifys' Sify Wi-zone, but it was not there.

I tried connecting

Got my hp tc4400

I have got my new Tablet PC last thursday from HP.  Awesome to use. Im mostly engaged in that only. Learning more about the Tablet functionality.

Well, battery is really great. That too with WLAN enabled, im getting nearly 5 hours!! Also the Core 2 Duo is doing great job.

Please wait for a week or two for my review on this new hp TC4400.

In tablet Mode

Multi Touch Interaction Technology

I have heard of Multi Touch Technology a long back, when I started reading about Tablet PC & Handhelds. A cool video, which shows a Professor (Jefferson Y. Han) using a device that has Multi Touch Interaction Technology. Read more on this.

How it will be ? If we get such a device infront of us in the office instead of 17" LCD, a mouse and a Keyboard. Just think of those Fiction movies....

Im expecting some Tablet Manufacturers to use this in their Tablet, so that my next Tablet PC will be of this type!!

Source : [Vasanth]

Ordered a HP tc4400 Tablet PC

I have ordered a hp Tablet PC tc4400 yesterday. After Vasanth showcased his Tablet PC in his blog, my interest towards the Tablet PC has gone out of my control !And I started reading more about it. He was having Tecra M4, and later Duo Core version of the same was introduced with the name M7.  So I chose Tecra M7 & hp TC4400 to decide upon.

Other than the 12.1" display & lacking of internal optical drive hp TC4400 is similar to Toshiba Tecra M7. Im least bothered about the missing internal Drive, the reason is am not using it frequently, and its nearly a month I used my current optical Drive! Also I prefer 12.1" display for its compact size & Benq 17" will serve my need for a bigger display. Many a times I had a second thought about Tecra M7. Even in October when was in London, I thought of buying it there, but it was too costly (nearly 50% over priced than US) Likewise, something or the other went wrong in ordering that!

So I concluded my messy mind for a HP tc4400.

And yesterday, I have ordered it at last!

The specification for the same is here  :

Today Im buying a IDE to USB cable, which is my idea for Optical Drive replacement!

Though I have used many Notebooks, but not owned anything yet (yesterday) ! So my first Notebook is a real eNotebook where I can write!!

Taking your ASP.Net Web Application Offline

My work mostly revolves around ASP.Net based Projects, and so I frequently come across a situation where I release the application (or a part of it - may be dll ) for Testing, when someone is accessing. Generally I used to delete the web folder and install the new one after a informal notification. For this I cant stop or pause the Web server, as some other web application is running side by side will get affected. In times, I will just replace the web folder as such (taking advantage of the xcopy deployment). Its not the exact way to do so!!

At last I found the solution for this : Simply add a file called app_offline.htm to your root of the web folder. The application wont respond to any of the further requests. It just throws  404 - Error ( The resource cannot be found. )

app_offline.htm  - can be a empty file. This is a simple way to bring your application Offline!

To bring it back (making it online is so simple - deleting the file app_offline.htm will do!

I have checked with ASP.Net 2.0, and not tried with ASP.Net 1.1 Even I dont know whether this feature is there in ASP.Net 1.1

[Source]